Prof. Edgar Lin (林俊義)

Identity Snapshot

• English: Prof. Edgar Lin
• Also seen: Jun-Yi Lin — Who’s Who directory form. TAH #174 and his own byline use Edgar Lin.
• Chinese: 林俊義教授
• Era: 1938
• Geography: Taipei, Taiwan
• Core roles: scientist, professor, educator
• Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Accomplishment

1. Minister of Environmental Protection Administration, Taiwan 2000-2001

Education

• National Taiwan Univ. — 1964 — B.A., Foreign Language
• Goshen College — 1967 — B.A., Biology
• Indiana Univ. — M.S.
• Indiana Univ. — Ph.D., Biology

Employment

• Tunghai Univ. — Associate Professor of Biology — (1975-1978) — Tunghai Univ. — Professor of Biology — (1978-2000) — National Assembly of R.O.C. — Representative — (1992-1995) — Government Environmental Protection of Taipei City — Director — (1995-1998) — Environmental Protection Administration, Executive Yuan — Director — (2000-2001) — The Republic of China to the Republic of Gambia — Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary — (2001-2004) — The Republic of China in the UK — Special Representative Plenipotentiary — (2004-2007) — North American Coordinating Committee — Chairman — (2007-2008)

Family

• Wife: Kathleen Yoder
• Daughter: 西湘
• Son: 西濤, 西洛

Timeline (from the TAH employment record above)

• 1938 — born; Taipei, Taiwan
• 1964 — B.A. Foreign Language, National Taiwan Univ.; 1967 — B.A. Biology, Goshen College; later M.S. and Ph.D. in Biology, Indiana Univ.
• 1975–1978 — Associate Professor of Biology, Tunghai Univ.; 1978–2000 — Professor of Biology, Tunghai Univ.
• 1992–1995 — Representative, National Assembly of R.O.C.
• 1995–1998 — Director, Government Environmental Protection of Taipei City
• 2000–2001 — Director, Environmental Protection Administration, Executive Yuan (also listed as Minister of the EPA, 2000–2001; TAH #255 titles him 台灣環保之父)
• 2001–2004 — Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, ROC to the Republic of Gambia
• 2004–2007 — Special Representative Plenipotentiary, ROC in the UK
• 2007–2008 — Chairman, North American Coordinating Committee
• 2014/10 — memoir 活出淋漓盡致的生命 published
• Family: wife Kathleen Yoder; daughter 西湘; sons 西濤, 西洛

Names in the record

The TAH archive carries this person under both romanizations — Edgar (TAH #174, and the Who’s Who slug edgar-chun-yi-lin) and Jun-Yi (TAH #123, #255) — for the same 林俊義教授.

References in vault

• |123. Prof. Jun-Yi Lin 林俊義教授
• |174. Prof. Edgar Lin 林俊義教授
• Biography — his own memoir as filed in the TAH archive
• Environmental-movement context in the vault: |Taiwan Environmental Action Network (TEAN).
• Graduate-school context: |Taiwanese Association of Indiana as community context at Indiana Univ., where he took his M.S. and Ph.D. in Biology.

From the record

• 覆核（TJJ-A09260500-8, 2026-09-27）：slice 文章 0832558e3b4e5ac7 正文再驗證——台美史料中心 March 2021 Newsletter：林俊義「活出淋漓盡致的生命」再確認見於正文，subject 連結為真，無錯鏈、無虛鏈；含該文 wikilink 的日期事實條目已在庫 — SKIP，已飽和。

• 覆核（TJJ-A09251300-3, 2026-09-26）：本 slice 兩份同文文章 0832558e3b4e5ac7 / b7327dcf888cee82（台美史料中心 March 2021 Newsletter）正文再驗證——subject 連結為真實提及，無錯鏈、無虛鏈；含兩文 wikilink 的 2021-02-28 條目已在庫 — SKIP，已飽和。

• 2021-02-28 — 台美史料中心（T. A. Archives）3月通訊重刊林俊義〈活出淋漓盡致的生命〉自述（2015-02），記其赴美後由美國文學轉讀生物、於 Indiana Goshen College 重新起步的經歷（TJJ, 2021-02-28；同文另存 2026-02-08 快照）。

• 2025-11-13 (reported) — died, aged 87 (享壽87歲). Wire obit (綜合媒體報導／自由時報): first 環保署長 of the first 2000-05-02 party rotation; 1989 DPP 立法委員 candidate, 1991 國大代表 (elected) and 台中市長 candidate; 台北市環保局長 under Mayor 陳水扁; resigned over the 2001-01 阿瑪斯號 oil spill at 龍坑 (10-month tenure); later 駐甘比亞大使, 駐英國代表, 北美事務協調委員會主任委員; the third deceased 環保署長 after 張隆盛 and 李應元；the wire also names 林良恭 among his students (美洲台灣日報, archived at 美洲台灣日報)

Role in the Community

His own first-person accounts are held in the TAH story corpus, written for the 台美人顧台灣 series and the 活出淋漓盡致的生命 memoir set — community record, not press-kit biography:

• 1971/01 — first Taiwanese volunteer to work in Kenya, Africa: First volunteer to work in Kenya, Africa — predates his Tunghai appointment; the African posting is a distinct episode of his biography.
• 2015/01 — 187. 搭上貨輪 航向美國 — how he left Taiwan for the U.S. by cargo ship.
• 2015/02 — 191. 初抵美國呷漢堡和乘灰狗巴士99元暢遊全美 — first arrival in America; the $99 Greyhound trip across the U.S.
• 2015/03 — 219. 非洲大草原的奇遇 — encounters on the African savanna, companion piece to the Kenya posting.
• 2015/03 — 214. Care for Taiwan by Taiwanese American (台美人顧台灣): 13, 回去效力故鄉 — his statement of return-to-service, the through-line from the Kenya years to the EPA years.
• 2014/12 — 166. 立足小分子 縱情大宇宙 — 專訪諾貝爾化學獎得主李遠哲 — his profile-interview of Nobel laureate Li Yuan-Tseh, filed under his byline.
• 2015/01 — 186. 我為什麼要寫回憶錄 — why he writes his memoir; companion to the 活出淋漓盡致的生命 set.
• 2015/02 — 196. 活出淋漓盡致的生命(人生) (English edition: 196-eng. A Life Lived to the Fullest) — the 人生 installment of his memoir series.
• 2015/03 — 223. 一個台美人在台灣受到的政治迫害 — political persecution he experienced in Taiwan, first-person.
• 2015/03 — 224. 被列入黑名單 — being blacklisted; the persecution thread continued.
• 2015/04 — 240. Care for Taiwan by Taiwanese American: 21, 李遠哲旋風 — 台美人顧台灣 series, the Li Yuan-Tseh episode.
• 2015/05 — 241. 遇見達賴喇嘛 — his meeting with the Dalai Lama.
• 2015/05 — 賴其萬 — a third-party profile of his life and thinking by Dr. Lai Chi-wan, written for the 台美人顧台灣 series.

These fill gaps the employment table cannot: the 1971 Kenya volunteer year sits before the 1975 Tunghai record, and the cargo-ship departure explains the Indiana/Goshen re-start noted in the 台美史料中心 self-account above.

The 2015/03 pair — 223 政治迫害 and 224 被列入黑名單 — is the movement record this page exists for: the state’s response to his environmental and political work, told in his own words, alongside the 1990 立委 campaign defeat recalled in ourjourneys 301 (TUF invited him to lecture 《環保與台灣文化》 after that loss — the 台美人 community’s own response). 244 is 賴其萬’s profile of him, not his own writing, and is labelled as such.

Sources

• TAH #174 encyclopedia: 174. Prof. Edgar Lin 林俊義教授
• TAH #255 encyclopedia: 255. 林俊義教授 / 台灣環保之父
• TAH #123 encyclopedia: 123. Prof. Jun-Yi Lin 林俊義教授
• TAH Who’s Who

Related Pages

• |TAH Foundation
• |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org
• |TAH story corpus hub
• [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/255-e6-9e-97-e4-bf-8a-e7-be-a9-e6-95-99-e6-8e-88-e5-8f-b0-e7-81-a3-e7-92-b0-e4-b||TAH #255 — 林俊義教授 / 台灣環保之父]]

Deepen pass 2026-09-14 (vault-only)

• Graduate-school network: his M.S./Ph.D. years at Indiana Univ. place him in the same cohort space as the |Taiwanese Association of Indiana; a recorded associate from that network is |Prof. Irwin Chu 朱耀源博士, also an Indiana Univ. alumnus.
• Environmental record: as Director of the EPA (2000-2001), titled 台灣環保之父 in [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/174-prof-edgar-lin||TAH #174]] and |his own memoir 活出淋漓盡致的生命 (2014-10), he overlaps with the movement held in the vault as |Taiwan Environmental Action Network (TEAN).
• No further biography exists in the vault source set; deepened via cross-links only.